Hastings United boss Lee Carey talks about the 2-2 draw in the FA Cup at Faversham

Hastings United boss Lee Carey talks about the 2-2 draw in the FA Cup at Faversham - filmed by Colin Bowman

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00:00Good evening and welcome to Fabersham, the Hastings United. We've just come off the back

00:06of a 2-2 result in the FA Cup. I've got Hastings manager Lee Carey with me. Lee, I'm guessing

00:16there's bittersweet tonight. Yeah, I mean when you're scoring the 92nd, 93rd minute,

00:22whatever it is, you know, you'd expect to go and win the game. But yeah, things happen

00:27in football and they've scored the last kick of the game almost. Like I said, we've scored

00:33a lack of a Charlie, it's just a freak goal that will never happen again probably. So

00:37yeah, it's slightly frustrating we couldn't win the game but we'll dust down and go again

00:43Tuesday. I hear on the grapevine that you, as a club, and you personally would like to

00:49have a really good run in the FA Cup this year. Is that something that's really interesting

00:56you? Yeah, obviously I know what the Cup line can do for the football club and if we can

01:01go through on Tuesday and see how far we can go, that would be ideal. But again, we've got

01:06to put a performance in like we did tonight to stand any chance because Fabersham are obviously

01:10a good team. So we'll go on Tuesday and hopefully get the win.

01:15Can you marry that with a good league performance as well? Because I know it's very, very important.

01:22Yeah, I mean, I was disappointed on Monday. I think I made it very clear to the lads that

01:28the application that we showed on Monday, we needed to be far better than that, which

01:32you know, we definitely did that tonight. So although it's a draw and we'll have a replay

01:37on Tuesday, I was really, really impressed with the application from the boys because

01:41it was a far, far better performance than it was on Monday against Cobra.

01:44Yeah. Finally, your fans tonight, unreal. If you're going to get back in like that,

01:52I think these teams are going to go a long way this season.

01:54Yeah, you know, but to be fair, they are absolutely brilliant and all I can do is thank them for

02:00coming up to Fabersham on a Friday night, which has been great. So we're going to need

02:06their support all season because it's a brand new group that we've got in the changing room,

02:09six different players. And I just said to them in there, tonight we had six 18-year-olds

02:14in the squad, four 18-year-olds in the starting line-up, which is absolutely unbelievable.

02:20It just shows you from a football club point of view what we're trying to do and improve

02:24those players at such a young age. And I think that, you know, they've put us in really

02:27beautiful work tonight and I'm really proud of them because, like I say, six 18-year-olds

02:31in the squad is unbelievable. So I'm really proud of them for that.

02:35Exactly.